The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their rightful names.
Chinese Proverb

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.
Thich Nhat Hanh

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
The Talmud

Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln

Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
Stephen Levine

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Carl Jung

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
Mother Teresa

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolfe

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, then everything shall be seen for what it is.
William Blake

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A.E. Housman

A belief is not true because it is useful.
Henri Amiel

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sir John Lubbock

As an adult, you must rediscover the moving power of your life. Tension, a lack of honesty and a sense of unreality, come from following the wrong force in your life.
Joseph Campbell

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
Henry David Thoreau

The truth shall make you free.
John 8:32